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Marines in the Revolution :a history of the Continental Marines in the American Revolution, 1775-1783 /

by: Washington :History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps :For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,; Smith, Charles R. (Charles Richard), 1943-; Waterhouse, Charles H

Publication date: 1975

Topics: United States. Marine Corps, États-Unis. Marine Corps, United States. Marine Corps, American Revolution (1775-1783)

Publisher: Washington : History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.

Collection: uffamilysearch; univ_florida_smathers; americana

Contributor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries

Language: English

Item Size: 1,009.1M

Includes index

Maps on lining pages

Birth of the continental Marines -- Outbreak of hostilities: early Marine perception -- New Providence raid -- Uncombined operations, April-December 1776 -- Trenton-Princeton Campaign -- New frigates in action and the debacle on the Delaware, 1777 -- Across the Atlantic, 1777-1778 -- Year of landings and leg irons, 1778 -- Marines on the Mississippi, 1777-1779 -- Success at sea and disaster and Penobscot, 1779 -- Sailing against England, 1779-1781 -- Charleston, 1780 -- State and privateer Marines -- Mustering out, 1782-1783

Traces the activities of one special group of Marines; the successes and failures of the group as a whole, and the fundamental aspects of modern Marine amphibious doctrine which grew out of Continental Marine experience during the eight-year fight for American independence